Marxist father of Afrikanism dies
Prof. Dani Wadada Nabudere, 79, lawyer, academic, researcher, pan African, activist, community worker, husband and father of five, died of cardiac arrest at his home in his home town of Mbale, eastern Uganda, on Nov. 9.
The manner and circumstances of his death, in his local town where he spent a great deal of his time working with what he called “my people” says a lot about a man whose rare intellect was acknowledged by many around the globe.
One of Africa’s leading thinkers and author of African socialism or Socialist Africa?, Abulrahman Mohamed Babu, wrote the following about Nabudere in the ‘introduction’ to the 1982 Tanzania Publishing House book edited by Yash Tandon, University of Dar es Salaam Debate on Class, State and Imperialism:
“Marxists do not engage in debates just for the fun of it as in school debates. Their principal task is to change the world. Their debates are about the correct understanding of the world around us. Once this world is understood then the task is to outline policies, which will guide their struggle.”
David Musoke, the veteran journalist, business news editor, PR consultant, media consultant, Rotarian, husband, father of six and teacher of three generations of university journalism students has died. He collapsed dead on June 8 as he walked out of a conference hall. He was 67.
Walter Ochora was a soldier, politician, farmer, businessman, artist and many times he would cheekily add; a coup announcer and former ‘President’ of both Uganda and Rwanda.
